An Attempt to Extrapolate as a Research Fellow in Data Fusion Industrial multipartner collaborative

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An Attempt to Extrapolate as a Research Fellow
in Data FusionIndustrial multi-partner
collaborative project - TATEM

• Pancham Shukla
• RA and PhD student
• Communications and Signal Processing Group
• Imperial College London

ADSIP, UCLAN, Preston, 24 July 2006
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Attributes

• Education Qualifications
• Research Teaching Experience
• - Signal/image processing research
• - Mathematical modelling, Scientific computing
• - Technical communication
• - Teaching, Project supervision, Marking
• - Admin. responsibilities, Memberships, Team
  work etc.
• Conclusion
• - A fusion perspective

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Education Qualifications

• PhD (Electrical Electronic) Will submit thesis
  in Oct 2006
• Imperial College London
• Sampling schemes for multidimensional
  nonbandlimited signals with applications in
  super-resolution and photogrammetry
• MPhil (Electronic Electrical) Oct 2003
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• Complex wavelet transforms and their
  applications (Restoration and Feature
  extraction)
• ME (Electronic Computer) Aug 2001
• Indian Space Research Organization
• Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India
• Signal Processing for air-borne synthetic
  aperture radar (ASAR)
• (Microwave remote sensing Point target
  simulations, DSP implementation)
• BE (Electronic) Oct 1995
• Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India
• Project Micro-controller (8751) based
  check-weighing scale

NDT Also studied courses on Materials
science, Engineering mechanics, Instrumentation
etc.
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Research Teaching Experience

• Research Assistant Nov 03 Present
• (EPSRC/DTC funded)
• Research
• - Novel signal approximation methods using
  wavelet theory
• - Sampling schemes for multidimensional
  nonbandlimited signals (FRI)
• using Nonlinear estimation, Inverse systems,
  Lattice theory, and Radon
• transform
• - Algorithms for Shape reconstruction, Feature
  extraction, Super-resolution
• - Multi-camera system (Motion estimation and
  Object segmentation)
• - Publication, Paper review (e.g. ICIP05,
  ICIP06)
• - Student member of IEEE, IET
• Teaching
• - BCs/Msc Project supervision
• - Study group leader for UG course on
  communication systems
• - Paper correction
• - Group seminar scheduling

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Current Research
Sampling and perfect reconstruction of signals
with Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) Vetterli
et al 02 Signals Bilevel-convex polygons,
distribution of Diracs, 2-D polynomials with
polygonal boundaries, quadrature domains
(circles, ellipses, cardioids etc).

Sampling
kernels Any function that reproduce polynomials
(B-splines, and scaling functions from wavelet
theory).
Reconstruction Annihilating fitter method
(Pronys method), Complex-moments, Lattice theory
(directional derivatives), Radon transform.
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Current Research
Complex-moments
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Current Research
Lattice theory (Directional derivatives and
differences)
Radon transform
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Current Research
Multi-camera system (18 synchronized firewire
cameras)

Multi-view image analysis Motion estimation,
Object segmentation etc.
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Research Teaching Experience

• Teaching and Research Assistant Oct 02 Oct 03

Research - Wavelets and Complex wavelets for
Feature detection, Signal/image
enhancement, Multimodal fusion, and Audio
restoration. - Research proposal writing.
Teaching - Module leader for signal processing
tutorials and laboratory sessions, - MSc
project supervision, Marking
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Research Teaching Experience

• University Researcher Jan 01 Aug 01
• Ahmedabad, India
• Radar signal processing for ASAR microwave
  remote sensing point target simulation
  algorithms in Matlab, real-time DSP
  implementation with ADSP 21020
• Lecturer Apr 96 Oct 02
• GCET, BVM, India
• Research
• - Student projects
• - Visit/training at national institutes (ISRO,
  PRL, IPR, IIT etc)
• Teaching
• - Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching,
  Examiner
• - Project supervision, Laboratory development
• - Course development, Member of board of studies
• - Workshops, Refreshers courses
• - College magazine
• Admin Time table committee, Credit system,
  Industrial placement
• Memberships IEEE student branch coordinator,
  member of ISTE, IETE, CSI

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Conclusion A Fusion Perspective
Eager to learn new things
Attribute assimilation
Data fusion researcher ?
Thank you